France will send four Dassault Rafale fighters to Lithuania to protect Baltic airspace

This week France will deploy four Dassault Rafale fighters to Lithuania.

Here's What We Know

The planes will be redeployed to another country as part of the NATO mission to protect the airspace of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Fighters of the Czech Air Force are doing it now. French fighters will arrive in Lithuania on November 25.

The Dassault Rafale fighters stationed at the airbase 118 in Mont-de-Marsan will be engaged in protection of the skies over the Baltic states. The patrol program was launched by the Alliance in 2004.

The Dassault Rafale are fourth-generation multirole fighters capable of supersonic cruising speeds. According to the Occitanie Tribune, this will be the ninth time that French Air and Space Forces planes will participate in such a mission. For the sixth time France will deploy its fighters on the territory of Lithuania.

Source: Occitanie Tribune